Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 91 58
Rank change year-on-year +22 -33 +27
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 26 34 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 2.23% 1.83% 3.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.21% 23.94% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 41
10th Percentile - £50,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -16.13%
75th Percentile £89,375 £78,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £111,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 89 142 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 7.64% 7.65% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 66 75 137
10th Percentile £27,938 - £40,000
25th Percentile £34,563 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £75,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £89,750 £103,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford +15 4 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Staines 0 4 £70,000 -6.67%
Redhill - 4 £72,500 - 1
Woking - 2 £82,500 - 1
Reigate +11 1 - - 6
Weybridge +5 1 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 1 - -
Warlingham - 1 - -
Caterham - 1 - -
Esher - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) IIS
1 4 (15.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 19 (73.08%) AWS
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (15.38%) Cloudflare
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) Software Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Senior
4 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Lead
7 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Software Performance Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) .NET
2 10 (38.46%) Node.js
2 10 (38.46%) Pandas
3 8 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (26.92%) Kafka
4 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
5 4 (15.38%) ARM Templates
5 4 (15.38%) Loki
5 4 (15.38%) React
5 4 (15.38%) REST
6 1 (3.85%) Django
6 1 (3.85%) Flask
6 1 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cyberattack
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Android
3 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Design Patterns
3 12 (46.15%) Mathematics
4 11 (42.31%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (42.31%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) Kanban
5 10 (38.46%) Android Development
5 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 10 (38.46%) Line Management
5 10 (38.46%) Microservices
5 10 (38.46%) OO
5 10 (38.46%) OOP
5 10 (38.46%) OWASP
5 10 (38.46%) Secure Coding
5 10 (38.46%) Statistics
6 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Customer Experience
8 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Java
2 16 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 15 (57.69%) Python
4 10 (38.46%) C++
4 10 (38.46%) Go
4 10 (38.46%) Rust
5 6 (23.08%) C#
5 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
6 4 (15.38%) Bicep
6 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 4 (15.38%) SQL
7 2 (7.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) DV Cleared
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Grafana
3 4 (15.38%) Prometheus